Category: Music Videos
“Smack My Bitch Up” Video Remains One of the Most Provocative In Terms of Challenging Our Views on Gender
With the distorted perspective that Jonas Åkerlund would end up unwittingly commercializing in the video for Madonna’s “Ray of Light” in 1998, he implemented on [Read More…]
Blame It On Daddy: Clean Bandit feat. Ellie Goulding’s “Mama” Video
Though it is an oversimplification that parents are perhaps ultimately the root of all evil when it comes to the children they hath wrought (here’s [Read More…]
MARINA Will Make You Re-Appreciate Winter With the Video for “Handmade Heaven”
After a steady diet of much anticipation and living off the crumbs of single collaborations with others (specifically Clean Bandit), MARINA (more cleanly rebranded from [Read More…]
“Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored” Video Iterates That We’re All Just Narcissists Who Want to Fuck Ourselves
Not that it wasn’t something that Selena Gomez pulled recently in terms of a “plot twist” for her 2017 “Bad Liar” video, but Ariana Grande [Read More…]
“Twerk”: A Video That Proves Dance Crazes Don’t Have to Die if You Don’t Let Them
While the inevitable union of City Girls and Cardi B was made somewhat bittersweet by the fact that JT remains in prison therefore unable to [Read More…]
Personal Tragedy Can’t Quell the Power of Material Remedies
Ariana Grande has endured more tragedy than most people her age (all compounded by media scrutiny), let alone what someone might go through in a [Read More…]
Kate Nash, Unabashed 90s Kid, Makes a Song and Video Called “Trash” That Gives Recycle Rex a Run For His Money
Ah, the 90s. A time when Suede, too, had a song out called “Trash.” A time when environmental conscientiousness was peddled upon unsuspecting millennials duped [Read More…]
Why Didn’t Someone Do A Lesbian Frankenstein Concept Before?: Kehlani’s “Nights Like This” Video
Reinventing the wheel of geekdom from its John Hughes iteration in Weird Science (and, of course, long before in every cinematic production of Frankenstein), Kehlani [Read More…]
If You Give A Stripper A Sizable Budget: Cardi B’s “Money” Video
On the heels of coming out the victor in the battle called “Who’s More Pathetic Post-Breakup?,” Cardi B shows us that you can be a [Read More…]
J. Lo’s “Limitless” Video Enlists Pride Rock Tableaus to Presumably Inspire
The Lion King has long been an inspiration to us all. Except that part where Mufasa brutally kicks the bucket. Evidently, this is also the [Read More…]
